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The maintenance deficit, with evidence: what changed in v1.2.0
From v1.1.0 (2026-10-23, 02627ff76) to v1.2.0 (2026-10-27, db67c5ce1), paragraph by paragraph.
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!shot dw-built-on-volunteers.webp | images/ | "Built on volunteers: €108 million for the building, €112,000 for the foundation." Dion Wiggins' illustration for the article:of a building labelled Digital Sovereignty, lifted by a crane carrying the €108 million contract,Sovereignty resting on a cracked column of PHP,volunteer OpenSSL, curl, FFmpeg, libxml2, core-js and pgBackRest, held up by volunteers, beside a jar of $730,534 from 536 donors and a sign saying 11 part-time engineers on duty, while an official with binoculars holds a €2 billion, seven-year sovereignty package. Reused from Dion's public post, with credit.software. | wide
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!shot dw-ratio.webp | images/ | The maintenance deficit ratio, checked:checked withthree ways: Dion Wiggins' figures, 241 to 1; with the whole contract and the Sovereign Tech Agency's own page, 263 to 1; with the migration share alone, 179 to 1. Two orders of magnitude in every case.share. | comparison
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!shot dw-inventory.webp | images/ | The Dutch NCSC's inventory of software that ships or depends on PHP:PHP, onas of 22 October at 15:28 UTC, 724 rows, 61 fixed, 216 vulnerable, 440 under investigation; onand 23 October at 12:50 UTC, 751 rows, 109 fixed, 222 vulnerable, 389 under investigation, 30 not affected.October. | comparison
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!shot dw-flow.webp | images/ | Where the money flows: Germany's €108 million contract over four years, Acquia sold for $1 billion, Automattic's reported revenue of over $700 million in 2024, the EU's €2 billion seven-year open source strategycontracts and its €264 billion a yearrevenues on proprietaryone IT;side, against the PHP Foundation's $730,534 from 536 donors, 11 to 13 developers, one security engineer for six months, €205,000 from the Sovereign Tech Agency,donations and one person packaging PHP for Debian and Ubuntu.engineers. | comparison
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